There is no appeal. Mind your business, nothing to see heren move along... Any one interested in learning ice, it is terrible, but I hear snow boarding rocks!

Yes...ice climbing is pain and suffering, definitely not worth the time. Please stay at home and leave all the ice for us masochists that completely understand what it's all about. If you already hate winter then just stay at home, some people like it and others hate it. Do you ski? If you like other winter sports then it's great.

Just to clarify I'm only quoting you tits in support of your post, then answering the op's question.

Yes...ice climbing is pain and suffering, definitely not worth the time. Please stay at home and leave all the ice for us masochists that completely understand what it's all about. .

OOOhhhhhh, but what if I want to walk around in 1,000 worth of gear carrying a pack with 2,000 worth of gear in the cold to fight over the same three threads of ice? What if I love masturbation but can't quite do that motion 200 times without serious ramifications? What if I adore the shape of an ice pick? How else will I make my non-masochists ego survive?

Why do people risk life and limb to rock climb? Why do people run to exhaustion so they can shoot spheres into nets or baskets? Why do people wake up ass-early in the morning to hike peaks for sunrise?

Again, asking why we ice climbing just like non-climbers ask us we we climb at all or like other people as builders why they like climbing buildings.

Sometimes we do certain thing for no reason, we are just follow out hearts and enjoy it. I am sure most experience ice climbers will say that they climb ice is not because it looks cool to someone. It's all about taming our fear and learning to master certain set of skills to solve a particular problem/puzzle.

I know this answer will not please you, n00bw1b00b. Again since we are living in this free world, one has the right to decide what to do and what not to do in one's life. If you don't like certain, just walk away from it since there is no other human being pointing a gun at one's head and makes him to do certain thing.

Exactly. Ice climbing can be a lot more rythmic and flow-y than rock climbing. Some of the lines are beautiful, and some really good ones aren't beautiful too(little runnels in cramped dark gullys). Plus if you can ice AND rock climb, it enables you to do way cooler routes in the big mountains.

I can only assume, given your other worldly conditions, that a gamma ray burst has struck the vicinity of said ice formation causing immediate sublimation. And complete and utter destruction of the local environment.

I know right! Next hell be saying that water can go from liquid to gas with out reaching its boiling point...and then he'll call it evaporation or something!

The transitions between seasons is always a trip: getting pumped about the oncoming ice season and forecasts, feeling your first sticks of the season, harnessing the nervous energy of an alpine start vs. actually feeling the rock with your fingers instead of wearing gloves and using your tools, feeling light without the winter clothing and gear, the smell of spring and/or summer in the air...both are a bummer to leave behind as well.